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Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc.

er forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, co…

All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.

(Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.…

eat quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

d torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.

A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

tters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden.

For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.

At home, At large, At last, At length, At once, etc. See under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engaged. -- At least. See Least and However. -- At one. See At one, in the Vocabulary.

denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."